Munged 'From:' header

I see someone posting to a newsgroup with a 'From:' header 'Name <>'
and his name appears in a thread as 'Name <>'. He is posting via a
premium newsserver which, I guess, allows a bogus e-mail address but
not a completely invisible one! He is using Free Agent 1.93. I've
googled on this without result so can anyone tell me how this is done?

Yolande

In article <>, y_hermitas@no-
spam.hotmail.com says...
> I see someone posting to a newsgroup with a 'From:' header 'Name <>'
> and his name appears in a thread as 'Name <>'. He is posting via a
> premium newsserver which, I guess, allows a bogus e-mail address but
> not a completely invisible one! He is using Free Agent 1.93. I've
> googled on this without result so can anyone tell me how this is done?
>


provide headers.




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On 8 Aug 2003, Colonel Flagg wrote:

> says...

>> I see someone posting to a newsgroup with a 'From:' header 'Name <>'
>> and his name appears in a thread as 'Name <>'. He is posting via a
>> premium newsserver which, I guess, allows a bogus e-mail address but
>> not a completely invisible one! He is using Free Agent 1.93. I've
>> googled on this without result so can anyone tell me how this is done?

> provide headers.

Xref: news alt.... {my snip}
Path: news.alt.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01
!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail {my wrap}
From: Name <>
Newsgroups: alt... {my snip}
Subject: Re: ... {my snip}
Date: ... {my snip}
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Message-ID: {my snip}
References: {my snip}
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/16.576 English (American) trialware
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To:
Lines: 20

Yolande

Yolande wrote:

>I see someone posting to a newsgroup with a 'From:' header 'Name <>'
>and his name appears in a thread as 'Name <>'. He is posting via a
>premium newsserver which, I guess, allows a bogus e-mail address but
>not a completely invisible one! He is using Free Agent 1.93. I've
>googled on this without result so can anyone tell me how this is done?

Supernews doesn't require their users to enter an e-mail address.
When no e-mail address is supplied the default "<>" is all that is
shown.

The Saint

Colonel Flagg wrote:

>In article <>, -
>c.pbz says...
>> Yolande wrote:
>>
>> >I see someone posting to a newsgroup with a 'From:' header 'Name <>'
>> >and his name appears in a thread as 'Name <>'. He is posting via a
>> >premium newsserver which, I guess, allows a bogus e-mail address but
>> >not a completely invisible one! He is using Free Agent 1.93. I've
>> >googled on this without result so can anyone tell me how this is done?
>>
>> Supernews doesn't require their users to enter an e-mail address.
>> When no e-mail address is supplied the default "<>" is all that is
>> shown.
>>
>>
>
>and.... if you enter "Name" instead of say.... "Yolande", "Name" will
>show.
>
>HTH.

Absolutely.

The Saint